Next-gen console rumor roundup: Next Xbox may have 16-core CPU
The next-generation console rumors are heating up, and this week brought a lot of new detailed gossip on that front. Microsoft’s next-generation machine is...
Joke app Happy Poo finds some success on Android platform
Urban dictionary defines turd polishing as “The act of trying to make something hopelessly weak and unattractive appear strong and appealing. An impossible process...
PAX East 2012: New business model changes development of PopCap Games (UPDATED)
GamesBeat sat down with PopCap's director of social media at PAX East to talk about how monetization will affect the studio's future. It may deeply alter two of the developer's biggest titles.
Flurry releases new analytics features to improve monetization
Flurry launched new analytics features today that allows customers to take better control of how they measure and access the metrics for their apps....
GamesBeat Weekly Roundup
Here are some of the stories that ran on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more articles exclusively in the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat, particularly...
Portal’s test chambers created to scale in Minecraft (video)
In the wake of yesterday’s report on the Minecraft Game of Thrones recreation, it’s only fitting that today we find this stunning one-to-one scale...
The DeanBeat: How developers can avoid a bloodbath in fighting for new users
In the past month, what app makers have to spend to get the attention of Apple device users has risen out of control. That’s...
Retro revival: PC games raise $6.7M and counting in Kickstarter campaigns
Kickstarter’s gone vogue. With a single, bold move by Double Fine’s Tim Schafer in early February, the crowdfunding web site propelled itself into the...
Anomaly: Warzone Earth successfully reverses tower defense (review)
In the year 2018, an alien spaceship breaks in two and crashes on Earth. Terrible invading machines emerge from the wreckage and assemble treacherous gauntlets in the middle of Baghdad and Tokyo. Good thing they know how to implement gamification in their invasion....
Pokémon Black and White 2 will hurt the Nintendo 3DS
I was a little confused when Pokémon Black and White 2 was announced last week for the Nintendo DS. Why isn’t the game coming to the...